“Back to the Future” 3-D Displays Ready for Market
Mon, 10/12/2015
Greg Watry, Digital Reporter
This is the billboard of the future: A large-scale glasses-free 3-D display. Image: TriLite
In “Back to the Future II,” Marty McFly enters 2015 in a state of awe. Surrounded by flying cars, hoverboards and second story gas stations, he hears the pixelated breaking of water, turning around to find a 3-D shark engulfing him in its sharp-toothed maw.
Well, here we are: 2015. Flying cars don’t exist, hoverboards only exist in car commercials and a second story gas station isn’t exactly feasible for customer access.
But, the Vienna Univ. of Technology and TriLite Technologies have developed a prototype for an apparatus capable of producing 3-D displays without the need for 3-D glasses. The technology arrives just in time for Marty McFly’s arrival on Oct. 21.
Smaller than a Euro, the 3-D pixel (Trixel) combines a laser and moveable mirror, which directs the beam from left to right across the field of vision. Image information is changed during the movement. Called stereoscopic perception, the viewer’s right and left eyes take in two different images. The human brain then combines the two, creating a 3-D model of the observed scene.
“The basic technology was invented by TriLite Technologies in 2011,” said Franz Fidler, CTO of TriLite Technologies. At the university, “three research institutes worked on different tasks such as steering the Trixels and optimizing the connection between them. The technology is now ready for the market, and we are looking for partners for mass-production all over the world.”
This prototype boasts a full-color display, a significant advance from its monochromatic predecessor. The Trixels are outfitted with red, green and blue lasers. A single module is equipped with 12 x 9 Trixels. When combined, modules can create large outdoor displays.
“The software for controlling the modules and displaying movies has already been developed,” said Jörg Reitterer of TriLite Technologies. “We can use any off-the-shelf 3-D movie and play it on our display.”
http://www.rdmag.com/articles/2015/...?et_cid=4876358&et_rid=721733906&location=top
Mon, 10/12/2015
Greg Watry, Digital Reporter
This is the billboard of the future: A large-scale glasses-free 3-D display. Image: TriLite
In “Back to the Future II,” Marty McFly enters 2015 in a state of awe. Surrounded by flying cars, hoverboards and second story gas stations, he hears the pixelated breaking of water, turning around to find a 3-D shark engulfing him in its sharp-toothed maw.
Well, here we are: 2015. Flying cars don’t exist, hoverboards only exist in car commercials and a second story gas station isn’t exactly feasible for customer access.
But, the Vienna Univ. of Technology and TriLite Technologies have developed a prototype for an apparatus capable of producing 3-D displays without the need for 3-D glasses. The technology arrives just in time for Marty McFly’s arrival on Oct. 21.
Smaller than a Euro, the 3-D pixel (Trixel) combines a laser and moveable mirror, which directs the beam from left to right across the field of vision. Image information is changed during the movement. Called stereoscopic perception, the viewer’s right and left eyes take in two different images. The human brain then combines the two, creating a 3-D model of the observed scene.
“The basic technology was invented by TriLite Technologies in 2011,” said Franz Fidler, CTO of TriLite Technologies. At the university, “three research institutes worked on different tasks such as steering the Trixels and optimizing the connection between them. The technology is now ready for the market, and we are looking for partners for mass-production all over the world.”
This prototype boasts a full-color display, a significant advance from its monochromatic predecessor. The Trixels are outfitted with red, green and blue lasers. A single module is equipped with 12 x 9 Trixels. When combined, modules can create large outdoor displays.
“The software for controlling the modules and displaying movies has already been developed,” said Jörg Reitterer of TriLite Technologies. “We can use any off-the-shelf 3-D movie and play it on our display.”
http://www.rdmag.com/articles/2015/...?et_cid=4876358&et_rid=721733906&location=top
